Motion Picture

Table of Contents: Introduction | Beginnings | Formative Years | Electrification of Sound (Audiovisual Collections between the Wars ) | "The Burden of this Education" (Audiovisual Activism during World War II) | "Purchased at a Heavy Price" (Captured War Material) | Office of War Information Collection | The Invisible Highway Abroad (Armed Forces Radio Service) | Postwar Boom | The Voice of America | All That Jazz | LPS, 45S, and Magnetic Tape | TV ("A Vast Wasteland" or "The Marvelous Medium of the Ordinary") | Public Television | In the Wake of TV (Radio and Motion Pictures on the Rebound) | To the New Century

Author/Creator: Area Specialists and Research Librarians. Introduction by David Francis, Chief, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress